Safety attachment for railroad-speeders.



R. K. PAYNE.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR RAILROAD SPEEDERS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11. 1914.

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ROY KBATlElR, PAYNE, OF IB EAV'ERTON, OREGON.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR RAILROAD-SPEEDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application filed November 17, 1914:. Serial No. 872,553.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROY KRATER PAYNE, residing at Beaverton, in the county of Washington and State of Oregon, have mvented new and Improved Safety Attachments for RailroadSpeeclers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and-effective means adapted for being readily applied to railroad speeders, either of the motor driven or hand car type having three or four wheels, and it has for its object to provide a means of the character stated, of a simple and inexpensive construction that serves to catch the speeder car as it leaves the rails and supports it for gliding along the'rails so that the said car may be quickly stopped without perceptible jars and'without injury to the operator or the car.

With other objects in view that will hereinafter appear, my invention embodies certain novel features of construction, and peculiar combinationof parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully explained, specifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my in vention, so much of a motor driven speeder being shown as is necessary to illustrate the practical application of my said invention, the speeder car being shown as traveling on the rails. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the speeder or car being shown off the track and supported on the rails by my improved attachments or safety devices. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the safety guard or appliance for one of the large wheels. Fig. 4 is a transverse section there of on the line 4- 1 on Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the guard or safety device for one of the small wheels. Fig. 6 is a transverse section thereof on the line 66 on Fig. 5.

In the practical application of my invention, the same, when the car to which it is applied has four wheels, as shown in the drawing, consists of four guards or safety attachments, one for each wheel, two of which, those for the large or heavy side wheels, including bearing bars that extend across the front face of the wheel and beyond the opposite sides thereof, the purpose of which will presently appear.

Each of theguard devices referred to includes a heavy hearing or cross bar 1, provided with a longitudinal slot 10, that forms a seat for a solid roller 2, held up against the under side of the bar 1 by clip members having the tubular bar 42 engage with a 7 arm 48, fixedly attached to the car framing an he oss or hearing bars 1 are of such length that their opposite ends project beyond the opposite faces 0f the wheels, sc that should one or both of the wheels jumI the track at either side of the rail, ample provision is made for projecting the bar 1 to drop onto the rail. To take up the impact on the said guards, brace members 7 are attached to the side arms 40, extend rearwardly and are fixedly connected to the pendent members 80 of the parallelly disposed frame beams 8 onwhich the carriage and motor mechanism for the "speeder car are supported and between which the mud guards 9 for the large wheels are secured as shown.

The guards for the smaller wheels are each constructed as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 by reference to which it will be noticed the same includes a Fl shaped frame 11, the inner, one 12, of the pendent or hanger arms of which, is larger than the other arm 12, the reason for which will presently appear. The frame 11 is pendently supported from the cross or axle beam 14: of the car frame and it supports a cross rod 15 upon which is mounted a tubular roller 16 as shown.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawing, the complete construction, the advantages of my invention will be readily apparent.

By reason of providing each of the large wheels with a guard device, as shown, it follows that should either of said large wheels jump the track, in either direction, the cross bar with the solid roller will drop down onto the track, and form a roller bearing for taking up the weight of that side of the car as the same slides along, duringtheopera- 1 7 tion of stopping the car, itbeing understood v that should the carfwheels, atthe heavy side jump inside of the rail, as indicated in Fig, 2, the guards therefor instantly drop"=onto the rail, While the roller bearings or the cross bars of the guard devices for the smaller wheels likewise drop onto the other rail and sincethe supports for the car are .now in the nature of rollers, the momentum of thecar tends to'absorb the heavy shocks or: jars and at the-same time provide for quickly bringing the car to a stop as itthus glides along the rails with theiflangeswof theseveral wheels high enough to miss the ground and the ties; By extending the inner one of the hanger arms of the guards for the Wheels at the light side of the' cair' below the roller, danger of the car moving laterally to suchdistance that the roller sup.- ports will move oli' the rails is prevented the said extendedend'acting as a stopmember I forengaging the rail. Furthermore, since the car, when the Wheelsleave the track glides alongthe track, it is kept from stoppingrtoo' suddenlyjand in case it jumps on the side of the small wheels, the guards keep the said .Wheels and also the large wheels from dropping between'the ties and when thecar jumps the other way the guards on the heavy side catch theheavy part of the car and the light wheels run on the ballast between the ties. The guards for the large wheels have the ends of the cross bar 1 turned down toform flanges to keep the car straight on the rails after jumping the track.

What I ela-imxis:

1; Ina speeder car, the combination with the-truck, of guard members, one for each wheel at one side of the truck, the said guard members each" including a supporting member that extends across the adjacent rail", and an auxiliary guard member for each Wheel onthe other side, of thetruck and lo-' cated at the inner side of the said wheels only- J 2.. As an improvement in speeder cars, the combination with the truck frame, said Copies 61' this'patent nay be obtained for frame'inc'lud'ing arms that extend across the s .7 Wheels at one side,.means for bracing the '50 outer ends-of saidfarms to the ear. framing, ,hangers pendently supported on the inner ends of each of the said arms, a cross member on the lower ends of each of the hangers located adjacent the wheels to drop onto the rail whenthe said wheels leave the track and'having stop portions at the ends'for engaging the rail from either. 'side, and an auxiliary guard member for each wheelon the other side, said auxiliary guardmembers being pendently supported from the truck fr'ames at theinner side of their respective wheels, the said auxiliary guard members.

including a cross member for riding on the rail when thexadjacent wheels jump outside of thera-il engaged thereby, the said aux;

il iary guard members also including a stop portion for engaging the inner'edge of the adjacent rail only. a y 8. In a speeder car, the combination with the truck frame; of a guard member, one

.foreach wheelat one side of the said truck, .-.-.v-

'member for each- Wheel on the other side of the truck, located at the inside ofithe said Wheel, said auxiliary guards .each'including a n-shaped hanger pendent--from the truck frame and located at the inner side of the said last mentioned wheels, a roller between the pendent arms of the said: hanger the inner one of the said arms being extended below the roller to form; a stop for engaging the inner side of the adjacent. rail.-

ROY KRA'IER PAYNE.

Witness'es:

ALBERT J'. -Goons'roNn, s HEDWIG'E'. DEOKERT.

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